I've just been giggling and cheering my way through a most enjoyable set of academic Death Note articles.
Casuistor uses Tumblr to rant regarding realism in Death Note. Then occasionally dives into a subject armed with calculators, text-books and (one would presume judging by the narrative) some kind of medical qualification.
I'm a mere First Aid at Work certificate holder, and I was nodding away at the sheer blatant idiocy in some canon goofs pointed out here. Casuistor goes much, much further. The writer not only highlights what couldn't possibly have occurred as per plot, but explains what would have happened instead.
Fan fiction writer's fodder right there.
Which is pretty much how I found the first of these analyses on Death Note.
In my novels, I tried to keep everything within the canon universe. Even if, for the sake of realism, I had to do the writing equivalent of a few triple twist somersaults to turn those story-lines into something which could occur in reality.
However, the one notable place in which I baulked at the prospect was Mello's explosion injuries. I couldn't square the state of his face with him meandering into Hal's shower three days later. So I inserted a random year into my fan-fiction timeline, just to give him some time to recover.
Casuistor covered the same improbable nature of Mello's ''tis but a scratch' attitude towards extensive third degree burns across a quarter of his body. Or, as the blogger puts it,
Casuistor uses Tumblr to rant regarding realism in Death Note. Then occasionally dives into a subject armed with calculators, text-books and (one would presume judging by the narrative) some kind of medical qualification.
I'm a mere First Aid at Work certificate holder, and I was nodding away at the sheer blatant idiocy in some canon goofs pointed out here. Casuistor goes much, much further. The writer not only highlights what couldn't possibly have occurred as per plot, but explains what would have happened instead.
Fan fiction writer's fodder right there.
Which is pretty much how I found the first of these analyses on Death Note.
In my novels, I tried to keep everything within the canon universe. Even if, for the sake of realism, I had to do the writing equivalent of a few triple twist somersaults to turn those story-lines into something which could occur in reality.
However, the one notable place in which I baulked at the prospect was Mello's explosion injuries. I couldn't square the state of his face with him meandering into Hal's shower three days later. So I inserted a random year into my fan-fiction timeline, just to give him some time to recover.
Casuistor covered the same improbable nature of Mello's ''tis but a scratch' attitude towards extensive third degree burns across a quarter of his body. Or, as the blogger puts it,
As I’d previously pointed out in earlier posts, Death Note is full of medical inaccuracies, many of which I tend to just overlook the same way I overlook medical inaccuracies in other shows. There are a lot of head scratchers, but I think the grand prize has to go to Mello.
Casuistor, Even more irrelevant medical things in Death Note, Tumblr
Which now has me dying to have Casuistor check out My Own Way, to see if I did better in fan fiction than Ohba did in canon. But I can't do that to the poor love. Some things can't ever be unread.
But Sacrifice should be read, with great enjoyment and a whole lot of enlightenment, wherein you'll find such gems as:
But Sacrifice should be read, with great enjoyment and a whole lot of enlightenment, wherein you'll find such gems as:
And a lot more besides. You're welcome. Enjoy!
